The office on violence against women (OVW) training and technical assistance (TA) initiative provides OVW grantees and subgrantees with the expertise and support they need to develop and implement…

The office on violence against women (OVW) training and technical assistance (TA) initiative provides OVW grantees and subgrantees with the expertise and support they need to develop and implement successful state, local, tribal, and campus projects; increase victim safety; and bolster offender accountability. Through cooperative agreements, OVW supports educational initiatives, conferences, peer-to-peer consultations, and targeted assistance that allow current and potential grantees and subgrantees to learn from experts and one another about how to overcome obstacles and incorporate promising practices in their efforts to address violence against women. In addition, OVW is focused on building the capacity of the criminal and civil justice systems and victim service organizations to respond effectively to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and to foster partnerships between organizations that have not traditionally worked together to address violence against women. With FY 2023 TA initiative funding, inspire action for social change will implement the inspired supervised visitation and safe exchange technical assistance project. This project will provide training and technical assistance that supports the provision of supervised visitation and safe exchange (SV & SE) services. Over the course of the project period, inspire action for social change will develop trainings including national supervised visitation immersion trainings, create written products on emerging challenges faced by SV & SE programs, support a national peer community of SV & SE providers, and provide individualized technical assistance. This project supports FY 2023 TA initiative purpose area 42: supervised visitation and safe exchange technical assistance project. This award is for years 1, 2, and 3 of a five-year comprehensive TA project, awarded competitively in FY 2023. This is a new award.